Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Hannah

In a crime novel, if you are going to have a big revelation in chapter 30, you have to plant the information in chapters three and 11.

Jalal Talabani

It is a historic day. We have closed a sad chapter in the history of the Kurdish people.

Bhagwan Rajneesh

With me, a new chapter in the history of consciousness begins.

Helane Becker

I think United cut as much as they can after three years in Chapter 11. There's not a lot more they can do at this juncture. In our view they're probably positioned as well as they can be at this time.

Matt Blunt

It is important that we recognize the pioneering efforts of the suffragists, whose efforts lead to ratification of the 19th Amendment, ... Their commitment to equality and women's rights was an important chapter in the expansion of American Democracy and the enfranchisement of all our nation's citizens.

Ranya Young

Hopefully this will close the chapter of this book. I hope we can work together to get this district back to where it was and better.

Sharon Kay Penman

I do not set specific work hours as some writers do. I generally stay with a chapter until I am satisfied, do very little rewriting, and if a scene is going well, I've been known to keep night owl hours.

Sylvester Stallone

I am drawing on a lot of my feelings that are in sync with many people's feelings about facing the last chapter of their lives and how they want it to be written.

Janez Drnovsek

I am glad that I received support of so many voters and that we can together start a new chapter in Slovenia's history,

Herschel Sandler

Kevin is a great kid. I never doubt his commitment to his team and how hard he works, but to have an injury take you out of this is tough on the athlete. I feel for Kevin.

Wade Boggs

I talked to Wade and he said he regrets that he had other commitments and could not be here,

Tim Kearney

I think it's a lack of commitment. We have a real gap. We have the Comets, a 18-and-younger team. Then you go all the way to 13-and-younger. There's a five-year gap where there's no travel soccer.

Hanan Ashrawi

He was a genuine man of the people, and he was characterized by his high sense of values, his honesty, his integrity, his unwavering commitment to his people and human dimension.

Luis Figo

He did everything he could and did it with the utmost professionalism and commitment.

Sanjaya Baru

He reiterated his commitment to ensuring life of peace, self-respect for people of J&K.

Jim Stack

Having lived it and been around people who have lived it, you understand what it takes to get to this level and stay at this level. A lot of guys don't have that same understanding of the day-in and day-out commitment it takes to play at this high of a level.

Peter Hughes

Her warmth and understanding, her vibrant energy and her commitment to education for all will be sadly missed.

Bill Buford

Her travel writing was characterized by a high moral purpose and an overwhelming sense of justice. What distinguishes her journalism is her eloquent outrage and commitment to fair play.

Karen Aroesty

Hate undermines communities, hate undermines democracy and so we look at it in a different way. The impact is much more broad. Hate kills people.

Jalal Talabani

I think the Iraqi minister of human rights wanted to show them which kind of democracy now we have,

Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

For democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

Woodrow Wilson

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

Woodrow Wilson

The world must be made safe for democracy.

Woody Allen

The dictatorship is shut up, democracy is always concerned.

William J. Clinton

Democracy does not have to be a bloodsport, it can be an honorable enterprise that advances the public interest.

T.I.

To expect for me to be one-way every time you see me is to expect me to be a one-dimensional man, which I've never been. I've always applauded my efforts to be diverse and multi-faceted.

Brian Jenkins

I think that is the lesson of the Israeli efforts over the years.

Mark Farley

He's done a nice job with our kids here. I thanked him for his efforts and everything he has done here the past few years, and wished him well.

Stuart Anderson

On the state level, these efforts will continue.

John Kilduff

Remember, the power outages are what bedeviled recovery efforts after Katrina,

Atsutoshi Nishida

Regrettably, two different types of products seem set to hit the market. But this is the kind of technology that will be around for five or 10 years. Efforts should be made continuously to make unification happen.

Phil Smith

If you want your town to be pedestrian-friendly, you need to persist in your efforts over time. You can't just do one thing, either. You need a multiple strategy.

Rio Ferdinand

In my mind, and in a lot of the lads' minds, we are still concentrating all our efforts on finishing second.

Kip Hawley

By incorporating unpredictability into our procedures and eliminating low-threat items, we can better focus our efforts on stopping individuals who wish to do us harm.

Allison Davis

He lives in those of us who work hard to fulfill his mission of equality and opportunity. For all of us, he is very much alive.

Lakhdar Brahimi

What we have learned from that struggle is the importance of freedom, the importance of mobilization, the importance of justice, equality, and so on.

W. C. Fields

I am free of all prejudices. I hate every one equally.

Woodrow Wilson

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

Samuel Johnson

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

Will Rogers

The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment.

Rudyard Kipling

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Voltaire

Mortals are equal; their mask differs.

Rufus Choate

Appropriated to justice, to security, to reason, to restraint; where there is no respect of persons; where will is nothing and power is nothing and numbers are nothing, and all are equal and all secure before the law.

Kelvin Stokes

Katy is an expansion team, but they look tough. We've got to go in and be physical. If we go in and start slow, it could be a long night.

Haim Saban

guide the ongoing strategic expansion of this company, which will have a unique position in Europe.

Jim Boeheim

I think we should expand. I think we're ready for this. The game needs an expansion of the tournament.

Milt Stegall

We may need Birmingham, an expansion team from the U.S., to come help. That's how much help we need right now. It's going to be difficult.

Paul Tagliabue

I guess the sense I have, if we ever get around to considering expansion within the NFL, that San Antonio would be on anyone's short list.

Wade Duty

I'm not sure this is the right tool for the situation. If you're not supporting the industry that you have, why would you think the state would support an expansion of that industry?

Troy Dayak

I'm happy with his overall performance. On an expansion team it's very valuable to have his kind of experience.

David Gilmore

The message from Fed officials is clear: You don't take a record expansion and shut it off with two months of data. There is no risk of a hard landing.

Gary Murphy

These funds will help with the expansion of our facilities so that we can better serve the rice growers in the area.

Chris Witty

Just to be part of this team is an honor, but to lead them is amazing.

Frank Kimmel

He was a grizzly, old veteran, just a real hard-nosed racer, ... He would run all day long, and then all of a sudden with 20 (laps) to go, you would look up and he would be leading the race.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Leading by example is the most powerful advice you can give to anybody.

Laurence J. Peter

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her leadership has also improved. For a sophomore, she has shown a lot of maturity.

Larry Kupczyk

He's a skilled player who has been able to put the puck in the net on a regular basis. Jesse also took more of a leadership role this season and is a very solid player.

Ron Bonjean

He's deferring to the minority leader to appoint members to the committee.

Jerry Brookings

He showed me how to lead a band, which was something I had always wanted to do.

Ken Clarke

I think it sends a message that they (Tories) are looking for a younger leader probably, but I don't think my age was remarkably relevant,

S. Hughes

It is so important in this time of dispossession taking place that we recognize we have one another, and we have the Lord,

Tanya Vanasse

If you know Stewart, you'd probably recognize it.

Jan Dawson

It's unusual, to be honest, to have a vendor recognize that there are things being done well.

Tanya Kach

It was her idea. She said it was so they didn't recognize me.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand. It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Stephanie Williams

It's supply and demand, ... It's better to recognize it now than wait, because recruiting and retraining (drivers) is more expensive.

Robert Barnes

They recognize that without the traveler, there is nothing to reorganize.

Chris Priester

They recognized that we need this new hospital.

Gail Goestenkors

We've watched enough tapes of them to recognize they are scrappy.

Margaret Williams

I think that the smoker has just as much rights as the non-smoker.

William Perry

The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.

Robert E. Lee

I have fought against the people of the North because I believed they were seeking to wrest from the South dearest rights. But I have never cherished toward them bitter or vindictive feelings. And have never seen the day when I did not pray for them.

Ryan Miller

Mutual respect among everyone for one another and for one another's rights is an absolute prerequisite for peace.

Romeo Dallaire

Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.

Reinhold Niebuhr

While it is possible for intelligence to increase the range of benevolent impulse, and thus prompt a human being to consider the needs and rights of other than those to whom he is bound by organic and physical relationship, there are definite limits in the capacity of ordinary mortals which makes it impossible for them to grant to others what they claim for themselves.

William J. Brennan

The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.

William Jennings Bryan

The government being the peoples business, it necessarily follows that its operations should be at all times open to the public view. Publicity is therefore as essential to honest administration as freedom of speech is to representative government. Equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the maxim which should control in all departments of government.

William Jennings Bryan

As long as there are human rights to be defended; as long as there are great interests to be guarded; as long as the welfare of nations is a matter for discussion, so long will public speaking have its place.

Abu Bakr

When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.

Warren Zevon

I remember certain lines and whose they are.